SESAME

Stress can have long term adverse effects on individuals’ physical and mental well-being, and there has been a good deal of work in the CHI and UbiComp communities in measuring momentary stress. SESAME, the Stress Experience Sampling and Measurement Experiment, seeks to understand multiple modalities of minimally-instrusive stress sensing measures in real-world environments. In comparing data streams from electrodermal sensors, voice-stress analysis, and several self-report measures (supported by semi-structured interviews), we identify contexts of relative effectiveness for each modality.